SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: Fulfilling Fanatic, Michael Rubin is using his influence and the power of sports for a worthy cause

Rubin stands as the encapsulation of the next generation of sports plutocrat. He is Mark Cuban 20 years ago, Jerry Buss in the 1970s. While he is 48, at first blush, anyway, he presents as someone half his age, dressed in Nikes and a hoodie, studding sentences with the word “dude.” But his track record as an entrepreneur is such that he has the ear of the four major league leaders and seldom goes a day without a fellow (and, inevitably, older) owner calling him for advice…